The Thought Police Are Here, by Austin Ruse

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 2, 2024

Austin Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine. He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic (Crisis Publications). …

Did you ever notice that the Global War on Terror no longer exists? Did you notice it has been replaced by a war on us?

German courts just prosecuted an American playwright named C.J. Hopkins for thought crimes. He won the case, but that was not the point. The point was to punish for wrong think.

Hopkins moved to Germany during the Iraq War years because he saw Germany as freer than the U.S. which at that time did not much allow criticism of George Bush’s war of choice. Yes, I said that: I have been on a journey, as likely you have been.

Maybe Germany was freer for a while. But no longer.

German authorities criminally prosecuted Hopkins because he compared Covid authoritarianism to Nazism. …

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